The Only Pearl Jam Song Without Eddie Vedder On The Vocal Line

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JAKARTA - The essence of every great Pearl Jam song revolves around Eddie Vedder's vocals. Since he opened his mouth to sing Once's opening tone on Pearl Jam's debut album, Ten, the bariton's voice has become the typical style of many alternative singers, adopting yarl as part of their music vocabulary for the next decade of rock history. Even though Pearl Jam has a secret weapon with Vedder, in fact there is one song that barely features its vocalist at all.

Shaped from the ashes of Mother Love Bone, one of the biggest powers in Stone Gossard's eyes was the joining of Vedder on vocals. Initially working as a gas station officer in San Diego, Vedder received footage from Gossard through Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons, where he vocalized for what later became an Alive-like song.

When the band became famous, Vedder insisted on having more creative control than Gossard was willing to give. When talking about Vedder driving the ship in the documentary Pearl Jam Twenty, Gossard remembered the uncomfortable feeling with Vedder's statement to himself, "It's strange that my vision of what I want from this band to be taken over by Ed".

Being the face of a de facto group in every magazine, Vedder wants to keep the band away from conventional rock music, experimenting with the direction of their voice on the Vitalogy album. While tensions in Pearl Jam were high during their third album record, No Code showed the band's spirit was at an all-time low.

Recorded quickly, no band member communicated correctly, with Jeff Ament threatening to get out of the band after everyone started recording the album without him. Despite the busy production process, No Code featured several songs that surpassed Pearl Jam's previous limits. Although the tribal drum game on the main single Who You Are may be too artistic to be accepted by fans, the band still has the talent for their alternative rock characteristics, from Hail Hail to Vedder's latest ballad, Off He Goes.

Although these tense sessions may be difficult to get through, this has resulted in one of the boldest experiments in their career: handing over the microphone to others. For the song Mankind, Gossard takes on the main vocal task, playing the standard rock and roll wave-up song that fits the EDGE side of the RAM and the dilapidated feelings of The Replacements.

Because Gossard has been making waves with his side project, Brad, around this time, it feels like a natural extension of what he's done, to using the same chord sequence he uses in his other bands. Compared to the usual Vedder anger, Gossard's vocals have tense punk rock energy, it fits between Iggy Pop's soft voice and David

Despite the experiment, Gossard will no longer be behind the microphone with Pearl Jam, only occasionally lending back vocals to songs like Better Man every time the group appears live. Although Gossard has many different side projects to express itself, it's easy for him to let his guitar speak when playing songs like Even Flow and Daughter.